black screen after pressing play button

Hello, Ive sucessfully patched the game and when I press the Play button a black screen appears over the window task bar. No video or menu appears, no error mensagge appears, just a black screen and the windows 7 taskbar.
The following processes of Rift are loaded while the black screen is on loading something:

Ive tried the following but still no success:
- Tested downgrading ATI driver from version 10.12 to 10.10 (Ive never installed CCC, only driver).
- Tested uninstalling the game and reinstalling to folder c:\rift (installed directx9 too).
- Tested using CCleaner, AtfCleaner, registry cleaner...
- Tested running the game/files with full rights to all users, editing the files and running all of them as an Administrator.
- Tested uninstalling Comodo Firewall
- Tested running the game in windows XP compatibility mode.

None of the above steps helped me, I still get the black screen with the cursor loading and nothing happens.

Hello, Ive sucessfully patched the game and when I press the Play button a black screen appears over the window task bar. No video or menu appears, no error mensagge appears, just a black screen and the windows 7 taskbar.
The following processes of Rift are loaded while the black screen is on loading something:

Ive tried the following but still no success:
- Tested downgrading ATI driver from version 10.12 to 10.10 (Ive never installed CCC, only driver).
- Tested uninstalling the game and reinstalling to folder c:\rift (installed directx9 too).
- Tested using CCleaner, AtfCleaner, registry cleaner...
- Tested running the game/files with full rights to all users, editing the files and running all of them as an Administrator.
- Tested uninstalling Comodo Firewall
- Tested running the game in windows XP compatibility mode.

None of the above steps helped me, I still get the black screen with the cursor loading and nothing happens.

Hello, Ive sucessfully patched the game and when I press the Play button a black screen appears over the window task bar. No video or menu appears, no error mensagge appears, just a black screen and the windows 7 taskbar.
The following processes of Rift are loaded while the black screen is on loading something:

Ive tried the following but still no success:
- Tested downgrading ATI driver from version 10.12 to 10.10 (Ive never installed CCC, only driver).
- Tested uninstalling the game and reinstalling to folder c:\rift (installed directx9 too).
- Tested using CCleaner, AtfCleaner, registry cleaner...
- Tested running the game/files with full rights to all users, editing the files and running all of them as an Administrator.
- Tested uninstalling Comodo Firewall
- Tested running the game in windows XP compatibility mode.

None of the above steps helped me, I still get the black screen with the cursor loading and nothing happens.

Probably the issue is that, before the video is loading, the game is checking some registry entries and dns records, and trying to contact rift servers, if it cant reach them it just hangs without giving a message and loops in an end loop.

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a moderator please lock or delete this topic since I duplicate it, sorry.